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title: A £200 bike with only £50 spare leaves the family £200 − £50 = £150… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: A £200 bike with only £50 spare leaves the family £200 − £50 = £150 short. Who acts: £ bike. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 6

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A £200 bike with only £50 spare leaves the family £200 − £50 = £150 short.

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**Who acts:** £ bike · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (£ bike), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:6
# text = A £200 bike with only £50 spare leaves the family £200 − £50 = £150 short.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 023-when-money-is-tight.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	compound	_	_
3	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	_
8	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	spare	spare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	16	case	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	conj	_	_
17	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	conj	_	_
20	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a £ bike with £ spare | the family |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:6`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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